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I Had a Private Chef For Over a Year: Here’s My Biggest Takeaways And How I Apply Them To My Life Today

Reflecting back, they all seemed so darn obvious

Rick Martinez
6 min readDec 5, 2021
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Lots of folks talk about what it might be like to have a private chef. Maybe you’ve even thought about it yourself. And if I’m gonna be honest, I’ve often wondered what it would be like to have one myself.

And then it happened.

Honestly, I don’t know of any other way to introduce this story and the lessons I learned, other than to just come out and say something like…” I had a private chef cook anything I wanted for over a year, and here’s what I learned.”

But I don’t want to do it like that because what I learned was so far beyond culinary awesomeness; it actually made me a better human. Crazy right? I mean, at its essence, it’s genuinely kinda nutty to think that I learned so dang much about life from a culinary artist.

But I did.

So how about we just dive into the meat of the story.

Pun intended.

In April of 2020, the world was in full-on pandemic mode. Lockdowns, masks, bathing in sanitizer, and fear-mongering. All with good cause because people were getting sick and folks were dying. But I’m not here to debate…

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Rick Martinez
Rick Martinez

Written by Rick Martinez

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